Gui Mei

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Gui Mei (鬼魅) 48
Alias(es)	Ghost Douluo; Uncle Gui; Uncle Ghost; Elder Gui 48 118 199
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Spirit Hall 79 147
Occupation/Role	Spirit Hall elder; agility-attack Titled Douluo; escort and protector 126 147
Martial Soul	Gui Mei — a non-physical manifestation of his own soul, existing between a Body Martial Soul and a ghost-type martial soul 118
Status	Active 211 254 324
First Appearance	Chapter 48 48

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Rank 93 Titled Douluo	77	Qian Xunji identified Gui Mei and Yue Guan as rank 93 and among his most important Elder Hall subordinates. 77
Rank 95 Titled Douluo	83	Condensed a black, diamond-shaped attribute Soul Core with Yue Guan channeling compatible soul power; advanced from rank 94 to rank 95. 83
Approaching rank 96	323	After returning from Sea God Island, Gui Mei and Yue Guan were close to advancing and hoped Bibi Dong’s trial would help them break through. A rank 96 breakthrough was not yet confirmed. 323

Background

As a child, Gui Mei entered a state of false death after drowning. His soul left his body and later fused back into it, causing his martial soul to mutate into a manifestation of his own soul. This left him with a martial soul that is difficult to classify: it is neither wholly a Body Martial Soul nor a conventional ghost-type martial soul. 118 162

By the time of Spirit Hall’s Soul Core experiments, Gui Mei was one of Qian Xunji’s trusted elders and worked in close partnership with Yue Guan. Their compatible martial souls allowed one to assist the other during the dangerous internal stages of Soul Core condensation. 79 80

Gui Mei successfully formed an attribute Soul Core after Yue Guan’s breakthrough, reaching rank 95. The Soul Core greatly improved his endurance and sustained soul-power output. 83 129

Following the successful project, Qian Xunji awarded Gui Mei the approximately thirty-thousand-year Rapid Advancement Wind-Chasing Left Leg Bone. Gui Mei already possessed a right leg soul bone of approximately twenty thousand years. 85

Yu Changge later described Gui Mei’s childhood mutation as a form of Second Awakening. Gui Mei’s soul-based martial soul and the circumstances of its awakening became important precedents for Spirit Hall’s Body Martial Soul research. 118 149 152 162

Appearance

Gui Mei is most often described through his ghostly presence rather than conventional features. His voice is low and hoarse, while his movements can reduce his figure to an indistinct black shadow. 105 126 128

• Can transform into a mass of black shadow to travel or arrive silently. 105
• His movement becomes a black blur when he acts at speed. 128
• Uses dense black mist and spectral hands while employing his martial soul. 199

Personality

Gui Mei is reserved, calm, and habitually cold in demeanor, traits Bibi Dong associates with his painful childhood experience. 118 He is also practical and disciplined: he carries out confidential orders, reports directly to Qian Xunji, and completes demanding assignments without complaint. 147

Despite his severe bearing, Gui Mei is protective of those close to him. He supports Yu Changge’s family during soul-beast hunts, assists in safeguarding Yu Changge and Bibi Dong, and joins Yue Guan in giving up an eighty-thousand-year soul bone for Yu Tianqing. 126 130 139

Gui Mei is capable of accepting harsh necessities when they serve a larger goal. Though disturbed by Yu Changge’s proposed near-death Second Awakening program, he ultimately supports it and personally oversees the trainees’ water trials. 162 199 The rescues leave him tense and exhausted; he admits that he has not felt so nervous in a long time. 199

Abilities & Skills

Soul Manifestation Martial Soul

Gui Mei’s martial soul is formed from his own soul and exists in a non-physical state between Body Martial Soul and ghost-type classifications. 118

• Enables ghost-like movement and transformation into black shadow. 105 128
• Possesses a yin-aligned nature compatible with Yue Guan’s yang-aligned soul power. 80 83
• Its unusual origin helped inspire Spirit Hall’s research and public classification of Body Martial Souls. 118 147
• Spirit Hall’s public Body Martial Soul notice listed him as an example of a “Body Martial Soul: Soul.” 149
• Yu Changge considers the soul’s importance to the body a reason for Gui Mei’s considerable potential following his Second Awakening. 152

Attribute Soul Core

Gui Mei condensed a black, diamond-shaped attribute Soul Core within his dantian, advancing to rank 95. 83

• Was condensed with Yue Guan’s compatible soul power assisting from behind. 83
• Greatly improves soul-power quality, output, and endurance. 129
• Allows even his fifth soul skill to outperform the eighth soul skill of an ordinary Soul Douluo in sustained restraint. 129

Ghost Shadow Earth Pool Hand

Gui Mei creates an ink-black swamp beneath a target, from which numerous giant spectral hands emerge. 128

• Binds and immobilizes large targets, including the seventy-thousand-year Thunder-Patterned Flying Flood Dragon. 128
• Can prevent a restrained opponent from escaping while allies prepare the finishing blow. 129
• Restrained a fifty-thousand-year Crystal Wall Demon Spider Emperor while his companions captured a different spider for Bibi Dong’s fifth soul ring. 184

Ghost Shadow Devouring Hand

Gui Mei releases a mass of dark ghost shadows and vengeful spirits that swarm over a target. 128 129

• Inflicts continuous attrition by gnawing and tearing at the opponent. 129
• Was deliberately used without his Martial Soul Avatar to weaken, exhaust, and bleed the target rather than kill it immediately. 129

Martial Soul Fusion Skill

Together with Yue Guan, Gui Mei can use the control-type Martial Soul Fusion Skill known as the Two-Level Stasis Domain. 79

• Its control can be maintained as long as both users retain sufficient soul power. 79
• Their Soul Cores substantially improve the fusion skill’s endurance and potential. 79
• The fusion skill was used to restrain a Hundred-Thousand-Year Death Spider Emperor while the group concentrated its attacks against it. 137 138
• It cannot control a Rank 99 Peerless Douluo such as Qian Daoliu, nor would it be effective against a savage beast on Bear Lord’s level. 207 211
• The pair also unleashed Chrysanthemum Withers, the Ground Lies Wounded, Flowers Fall and Hearts Break to severely wound a Death Spider Emperor and disperse its swarm. 138

Other Soul Skills

• Demons and Monsters — Gui Mei activated his sixth soul skill as the group withdrew from the Crystal Wall Demon Spider colony. Its effects were not specified in the available account. 184
• Ninth soul skill — Gui Mei raised his ninth soul ring to threaten an injured Death Spider Emperor, frightening it into retreat. He withdrew the ring without using the skill. 138

Agility and Escort

Gui Mei is a top-tier agility-attack Titled Douluo capable of transporting companions over long distances. 126

• Brought Yu Tianqing, Yu Shuyao, Yue Guan, and others to Star Dou Forest in only three days. 126
• Personally delivered Yu Changge’s twenty-thousand-year Diamond Demon Ape Left Arm Bone to Yu Shuyao at Thunder Academy. 177
• Transported Yu Changge’s group to Star Dou Forest for Bibi Dong’s fifth soul-ring hunt. 184

Second Awakening Trial Support

Gui Mei can manifest ghostly hands from dense black mist for precise handling and rescue work. 199

• Used spectral hands to throw ten Body Martial Soul trainees into the lake as part of their near-death endurance trial. 199
• Rescued exhausted or unconscious trainees from the water throughout the trial. 199

Equipment / Items

• Rapid Advancement Wind-Chasing Left Leg Bone — Received one of Qian Xunji’s approximately thirty-thousand-year soul-bone rewards following the successful Soul Core project. 85
• Right leg soul bone — A pre-existing soul bone of approximately twenty thousand years. 85

Relationships

• Yue Guan — Longtime partner and fellow Spirit Hall elder. Their martial souls are compatible enough for mutual assistance during Soul Core formation and for a Martial Soul Fusion Skill. 79 80 83
• Qian Xunji — His Pope and superior, who entrusted him with the classified Soul Core experiment and later assigned him continent-wide Spirit Hall missions. 79 147
• Yu Changge — A younger ally who calls him Uncle Gui/Uncle Ghost. Gui Mei protects him during hunts, assists with his plans, supports his Body Martial Soul training program despite its risks, and is reluctant to part with him when he leaves for Slaughter City. 137 139 162 211
• Bibi Dong — Addresses him as Uncle Gui. He serves as one of the senior Spirit Hall figures protecting and supporting her alongside Yue Guan. He shows concern for her during her Sea God trials and is expected to help with her Fourth Sea God Trial hunt. 118 211 301 324
• Yu Tianqing and Yu Shuyao — Developed camaraderie during their Star Dou Forest expedition; Gui Mei and Yue Guan relinquished an eighty-thousand-year soul bone to Yu Tianqing. 126 130
• Yu Ming — Intervened to save Yu Ming during his life-and-death breakthrough attempt, restraining and weakening the Thunder-Patterned Flying Flood Dragon that had overwhelmed him. 128 129
• Ling Yuan and Gui Bao — Collaborated with them to deliver Spirit Hall’s Body Martial Soul directive to every branch hall across the continent. 147

Story Role / Major Arcs

Soul Core Experiment

Gui Mei and Yue Guan were selected to test Yu Changge’s Soul Core theory. After months of external solidification and internal vortex formation, Gui Mei condensed his own attribute Soul Core and advanced to rank 95. 80 82 83

Star Dou Forest Support

Gui Mei repeatedly accompanies Yu Changge’s group on dangerous soul-beast expeditions. He restrains the seventy-thousand-year Thunder-Patterned Flying Flood Dragon so Yu Shuyao can claim the final blow, helps repel the Hundred-Thousand-Year Death Spider Emperor, and protects Yu Changge during his fifth soul-ring hunt. 128 129 137 138

He later helps escort Yu Changge, Bibi Dong, Yue Guan, and Yu Luomian to Star Dou Forest for Bibi Dong’s fifth soul-ring hunt. The group captures the targeted twenty-thousand-year Crystal Wall Demon Spider without exterminating its colony. Gui Mei holds its fifty-thousand-year Emperor in place while the others secure their target. 183 184

Body Martial Soul Initiative

After Yu Changge develops the Body Martial Soul concept, Gui Mei helps distribute the directive to every Spirit Hall branch hall. He, Ling Yuan, and Gui Bao divide the continent between them and complete the delivery within two months. 147

The subsequent public notice identifies Gui Mei’s soul manifestation as a Body Martial Soul example and presents him as proof that the new classification has practical potential. 149

Second Awakening Training

Gui Mei supports Yu Changge’s dangerous Second Awakening program for Body Martial Soul students. Although concerned by the near-death training method, he assists with the water-based trials by using ghostly hands to throw trainees into the lake and rescue them when necessary. 162 199

Soul Beast Blood-Essence Collection

While Yue Guan assists Dugu Bo with developing new pill formulas, Gui Mei leads a team collecting soul-beast blood essence in the Soul Hunting Forest. The gathered essence is intended to support revised pill formulas without further consuming large quantities of Immortal Herbs. 215 218

Slaughter City Departure

Gui Mei accompanies Qian Daoliu and Yue Guan to the entrance town of Slaughter City when Yu Changge begins his training there. Alongside them, he discusses Spirit Hall’s policy of allowing Fallen Ones to gather in Slaughter City as a form of containment. 211 214 217

Sea God Island and Return

Gui Mei accompanies the group involved in the Sea God Island trials. When Bibi Dong finishes her Third Sea God Trial ahead of schedule, he joins the others in checking on her and shows concern for her condition. 301

On returning to Spirit City, Gui Mei and Yue Guan are close to advancing in rank and hope Bibi Dong’s trials will help them reach rank 96. Bibi Dong subsequently tells Qian Xunji that the two elders will help her hunt the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger for her Fourth Sea God Trial, which requires its soul ring for her second martial soul. 323 324